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Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

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Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction.

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1409481441

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Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God

The Realisation of Divine Love

By: Revd Canon Dr Mark Hocknull

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Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God

The Realisation of Divine Love

By: Revd Canon Dr Mark Hocknull

Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God examines a much-neglected aspect of the theological thought of one of the most original contemporary German theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg: his theological and philosophical understanding of evil and its relationship to the love of God. The book seeks to correct a widely held misconception that in his theology, Pannenberg has neglected the darker side of the world, concentrating instead on an optimistic picture of the future. This book argues that questions of evil hold a central place throughout Pannenberg’s writing and seeks to draw out the implications of his wrestling with these issues. The Introduction sets the scene by considering the nature of the question of evil and argues that a theological response must be made as part of a global view of the world and not in isolation from other themes. The succeeding chapters develop this theme through a reading of Pannenberg’s theology.

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217

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409463400

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9781409463405

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Testing Religious Truth-claims

By: Dr R Scott Smith

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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Testing Religious Truth-claims

By: Dr R Scott Smith

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality, it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology, best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false, and Christian theism is shown to be true.

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1409481735

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9781409481737

Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

By: Dr Catarina Belo

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Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

By: Dr Catarina Belo

Comparing Averroes’ and Hegel’s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason, and the origin of truth, in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes’ and Hegel’s parallel views on the nature of philosophical and religious discourse, Belo presents new insights into their perspectives on the relation between philosophical knowledge and religious knowledge, and the differences between philosophy and religion. In addition, Belo explores particular works which have not yet been studied by modern scholarship.

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382

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1472404181

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9781472404183

Cassian's Conferences

Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal

By: Dr Christopher J Kelly

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Cassian's Conferences

Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal

By: Dr Christopher J Kelly

This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the Conferences, especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. Cassian intended the scriptures and, implicitly, the Conferences to be the voices of authority and orthodoxy in the Gallic environment. He interprets familiar biblical characters in unfamiliar ways that exemplify his ideal. By imitating their actions the monk enters a seamless lineage of authority stretching back to Abraham. This book demonstrates how the scriptures functioned as a dynamic force in the lives of Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries, emphasizes the importance of Cassian in the development of the western monastic tradition, and offers an alternative to the sometimes problematic descriptions of patristic exegesis as "allegory" or "typology". Cassian has been described as little more than a provider of information about Egyptian monasticism, but a careful reading of his work reveals a sophisticated agenda to define and institutionalize orthodox monasticism in the Latin West.

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1409481743

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9781409481744

Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Difference is Everything

By: Revd Dr David Pitman

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Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Difference is Everything

By: Revd Dr David Pitman

Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism begins with the recognition that the traditional three-fold typology adopted by Christians in responding to other living world religions is no longer adequate and offers a much more sophisticated and developed approach. This is accomplished with particular reference to ten key Twentieth Century theologians, each of whom had significant influence in the field of inter-religious studies, both during their lifetime and beyond. The author rejects the exclusivism and triumphalism of traditional Christian approaches and argues strongly and persuasively that the future for inter-religious relationships lies in what he describes as 'classical pluralism', and in an understanding of the importance of difference for inter-faith dialogue. Presenting an accessible introduction to the contemporary issues and challenges facing all those engaged in the further development of inter-faith relationships, dialogue and partnership between the world religions, Pitman argues that the future of world peace and prosperity depends on the outcome.

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1472410920

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Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Reason and Faith

By: Dr Hilary B P Bagshaw

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Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Reason and Faith

By: Dr Hilary B P Bagshaw

This book examines the significance of religion in the work of the twentieth century philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. Exploring Bakhtin’s contribution to debates on methodology in the study of religion, this book argues that his use of religious terminology is derived from his source material in philosophy of religion and not from his confessional commitment to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Critiquing Gavin Flood’s important work Beyond Phenomenology, Hilary Bagshaw explains how Bakhtin’s work on ‘outsideness’ presents invaluable insights for scholars of religion, particularly pertinent to the contemporary insider/outsider debate.

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1409462420

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Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

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Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

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Piety and Responsibility

Piety and Responsibility

Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God

Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

Cassian's Conferences

Cassian's Conferences

Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Piety and Responsibility

Piety and Responsibility

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